wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 12/15/2008
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Putting the best possible face on the Bush administration’s disastrous legacy in the Middle East, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the Associated Press in a farewell interview “ that Iran has chosen to scale back much of its most troubling interference in Iraq, and she ...
huffingtonpost.com - 12/14/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
BAGHDAD — President George W. Bush on Sunday
made a farewell visit to Iraq, a place that
defines his presidency, just 37 days before he hands the war off to a successor who has pledged to end it. Air Force One, Bush's distinctive powder ...
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Bush Visits Iraq For Final Time
telegraph.co.uk - 12/12/2008
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telegraph.co.uk —
Iran's conservative parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani has branded
US PresidentElect Barack Obama's comments on Tehran's nuclear activities
as "cowboy" talk the ISNA news agency reported.
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Iran accuses Barack Obama of 'cowboy talk'
news.yahoo.com - 12/17/2008
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news.yahoo.com —
BAGHDAD The Iraqi TV reporter who hurled his
shoes at George W. Bush was kidnapped once by
militants and, separately, detained briefly by the U.S. military. Over time, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, a 28-year-old unmarried Shiite, came to hate both the U.S. ...
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Family: Shoe thrower hates both US, Iran role - Yahoo! News
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Rice's Claims About Iran
democracyarsenal.org —
... interests and act as a check on Iranian power. But the agreement, rather then entrenching the U.S. in Iraq, evolved into a plan for the redeployment of American forces over three years. The Iranians are not opposed to an American withdrawal and so they are not nearly as disturbed about the deal. Even that plan couldn't get through Iraq's Parliament without the agreement on a national referendum, which could push the withdrawal date up even further (Matt Duss has more on this). ...
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... " for Iran (Condi didn't get the memo either). On that day, the Iraqi government announced its intention to oust the MEK from its soil (the MEK are a Saddam-backed anti-Iranian terrorist group). Prior to establishment of the terms of sovereignty enshrined in the SOFA, the Iraqi government lacked this authority, but now the SOFA has given Iraq the ability to act. And, no, Iran is not rueing the day. ...
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thenation.com 11/17/2008 — Robert Dreyfuss By remaining neutral on the newly approved security pact, is Iran offering Obama a truce in Iraq?
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notesfromagrumpyoldman.blogspot.com 2/16/2009 — Paul Krugman E J Dionne First, you might want to send a Thank-You card to George Bush or the RNC for their economic policies of the last eight years. Their versions of tax cuts helped someone, but it turned out to not be me or you. Paul Krugman reports: "Last week the Federal Reserve ...
D.C. Establishment Pressuring Obama on Iran?
newshoggers.com 12/5/2008 — By Cernig
There's a rapidly developing consensus among Washington's Very Serious person set that Obama's plans to negotiate with Iran should get only one try, and if that fails then the bombing should begin.
Today Iran's parliamentary Speaker ...
Eric Margolis: How Obama Can Further U.S.-Iran Relations
huffingtonpost.com 2/24/2009 —
Eric S. Margolis
Special for the Huffington Post
February 23, 2009
Paris - Iran is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its historic 1979 Islamic revolution, a seismic event that shocked Washington and changed the political landscape of ...
The Newshoggers: I'd Like A New Iran NIE Too, Please
cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com 11/16/2008 — Yes, I'd like a new NIE on Iran. No I don't mean a do-over on the recent one that said Iran doesn't have a current nuclear weapons program, the one paranoid pouter John Bolton is calling a " quasi-putsch ". No I want a new NIE to examine the military ...
Hillary Mann Leverett: America Loses Another Bit of Leverage with Iran
thewashingtonnote.com 12/29/2008 — This is a guest post for The Washington Note written by Hillary Mann Leverett , a former State Department and National Security Council official who participated in numerous rounds of secret negotiations with Iran.
Monday's news that the Iraqi ...
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